Children who specialize in a single sport too early and spend too much time playing it risk overuse injuries, experts say. How to set age-specific time limits.
(KUTV) Knee injuries are pretty common, especially this time of year when everyone is hitting those slopes.Lauren Brey, a physical therapist at Intermountain Physical Therapy in Saratoga Springs stopped by to talk about how you can prevent knee injuries w
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A leading group of pediatricians says specialized exercises can help young athletes protect their anterior cruciate ligaments. After puberty, female athletes are especially vulnerable to ACL tears.
Baseball players at all skill levels routinely suffer from foot and ankle injuries, with position players being afflicted more often than pitchers or catchers..
Football returns, and so do head injuries. What’s optometry’s role?
It’s no secret that most women juggle many responsibilities, whether with work, family, friendships, volunteerism or all of the above
Some women can carve out time for fitness, and others have built-in activity, such as sprinting to meetings, walking their kids to school, or simply running errands
No matter the reason, women should take the time to care for themselves — and that means paying attention…
Gymnastics injury prevention information. Tips on preventing gymnastics injuries and identifying overuse and trauma injuries in kids.
Find out the answers to the most common running hamstring injury questions, and what you can do to prevent and remedy this painful ailment.
Small-muscle athletes. In the medical field, that’s the term for musicians. Musicians are prone to a range of injuries. It’s a pitfall of the profession.
Knee injuries: Athletes, especially women, are at risk of ACL tears. But specialized training may help avoid injury of the anterior cruciate ligament.
A 2012 systematic review of 10 randomized clinical trials indicates that rehabilitation exercises have a superior effect on acute hamstring injuries.
Hamstring strains can be some of the most chronic running injuries. Here are some treatment and prevention tips.
Skye Donovan, PT, PhD, discusses common injuries that affect youth soccer players and how to prevent them.
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Neurologist Javier Provencio explains new advances UVA is making in the treatment of brain aneurysms and how our brain reacts and prioritizes certain stored information after an injury.
The days are growing shorter, football fever is ramping up and students have returned to school.
ACL tears are a common injury. In order to maximize your chance of returning to play you need to make many decisions about your ACL surgery